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Pottery Retreats

Pottery Retreats

Bookings open now!

This artist's retreat in India is best suited to serious aspirants looking for personalized teaching and peaceful practice time.

Residential pottery retreats at Aura are structured getaways for individuals who are at the beginner or intermediate level of ceramics. The retreats range from a fun weekend getaway to longer stays from one week to twelve weeks. The retreats includes studio and material use, instruction, accommodation and meals.

Doing a residential pottery retreat at Aura Pottery means you get to spend time with like-minded people, explore your own creativity, get inspired by others, and all along enjoy and learn this art at our pottery school based in India.

One Week Retreat

This retreat will introduce you to the fundamental techniques of building in clay with the best tools a potter can have - their hands. The week is divided equally between hand building and wheel-throwing. No prior knowledge required, this course is perfect for beginners.

Techniques we will cover-

Introduction to stoneware clay, wedging, ceramic vocabulary
Hand building techniques- Coil and Slab
Intro to pottery wheel- Centering, Coning and Pulling Cylinder shapes

Cost per person:

Shared Room: INR 42,000 | USD 532 | Enquire Now |
Single Room: INR 49,000 | USD 620 | Enquire Now |

Retreat guest finishing their ceramic piece

practicing on the wheel

2 Week Retreat

These two weeks are divided equally between hand building and wheel-throwing. Get introduced to all three techniques of hand building and build a project using each technique. You will get a week to practice on the pottery wheel and understand the basics thoroughly. No prior knowledge required, this course is perfect for beginners.

Techniques we will cover-

Introduction to stoneware clay, wedging, ceramic vocabulary
Hand building techniques- Pinch, Coil, Slab
Intro to wheel- Centering, Coning, Pulling, Cutting
Pulling and trimming cylinder shapes

Cost per person:

Shared Room: INR 78,000 | USD 987 | Enquire Now |
Single Room: INR 92,000 | USD 1,165 | Enquire Now |

4 Week Retreat

This retreat will cover all the basic techniques and focus on specific tips and troubleshooting techniques to improve your skills in hand building as well as on the wheel. Refine your work and continue to build upon your construction techniques to form functional or sculptural ceramic shapes. This course will include an introduction to glaze class to understand basic glazing and finishing techniques.

Techniques we will cover-

All techniques mentioned in the 2 weeks course
Basic surface decoration, tools and techniques
Hand build shapes like mugs/tumblers, handles, bowls
Create basic wheel forms- cylinders and bowls.
Introduction to glaze

Cost per person:

Shared Room: INR 1,56,000 | USD 1,975 | Enquire Now |
Single Room: INR 1,84,000 | USD 2,329 | Enquire Now |

waxing the ceramic bottoms before glazing

working with clay

8 Week Retreat

The ideal program length to give yourself a good grounding in pottery is eight weeks. Get introduced to advanced techniques in both hand building and wheel throwing. You will design your own concepts, both functional and conceptual and learn how to best execute them.

Techniques we will cover-

All techniques mentioned in the 4 weeks course
Throwing larger amounts of clay, use advanced tools, textures
Altering shapes- bottles, bowls, vases, narrow/wider shapes, trimming foot
Glaze application and techniques, underglaze application

Cost per person:

Shared Room: INR 3,12,000 | USD 3,949 | Enquire Now |
Single Room: INR 3,68,000 | USD 4,658 | Enquire Now |

12 Week Retreat

This retreat offers an in-depth exploration and understanding of ceramics for students to discover their own individual language in clay. The skills included in this course cover all the fundamental techniques in ceramic that extend into advanced techniques such as execution of conceptual design strategies and construction with mixed techniques to form complex forms (sculpture or functional).

Topics Covered-

All techniques mentioned in the 8 weeks course
Build your own design, sectional break down of design, mix technique work
Altering shapes- Mugs, bowls, bottles, vases, lids/jars,
Glaze making & application
Loading, unloading pieces, basics to firing a gas kiln

Cost per person:

Shared Room: INR 4,68,000 | USD 5,924 | Enquire Now |
Single Room: INR 5,52,000 | USD 6,987 | Enquire Now |

glazing a ceramic mug

students learning about the test tiles

Terms:

18% GST is applicable.
The retreat is for people 18 years and above only.
The pricing below is applicable to per person.
The program includes studio and material use, instruction, accommodation, and meals.
Payments for the retreats are made in full in advance.
Payment mode is via GooglePay or wire transfer.

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